Blue-chip earnings and an improvement in consumer sentiment helped stocks shrug off disappointing economic growth to end mixed Friday -- but the market still enjoyed its biggest monthly gain in a year.
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Have your calculator and utility bill handy if you're keen on buying a Chevy Volt (or Nissan LEAF) and want to compare fuel costs with gasoline cars. The EPA is still grappling with how to provide consumers with ratings comparable to the familiar MPG labels.
The Washington Post Co. probably isn't going to get much more than a token $1 when it sells Newsweek. But it's being awfully choosy about where that dollar comes from.
Gold bugs like to think gold covers all bases, whether inflation or deflation rules. But major vendors like Goldline are coming under scrutiny for steering investors into coins with markups of 35% -- or worse, customers say.
Even with the slight rise, there's little to celebrate because the reading remained at a near-six-month low. Still, like the second quarter's slender 2.4% growth rate, July's sentiment measure could have been worse.
The U.S. economy downshifted in the second quarter to a tepid 2.4% growth rate. Offsetting that news was the first-quarter GDP growth, which was revised upward to 3.7% from the previously estimated 2.7%.
Obama visits Detroit today to bolster his claims that the $86 billion spent to rescue GM and Chrysler from oblivion was well worth the jobs it has put people into, and the million or more the government says it has saved.
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| 4.10 | -0.02 -0.49% | 269.97M | |
| 110.27 | -0.02 -0.02% | 220.07M | |
| 14.04 | +0.01 +0.07% | 130.22M | |
| 12.77 | -0.20 -1.54% | 79.54M |
| 4.20 | +0.62 +17.32% | 1.68M | |
| 2.98 | +0.38 +14.62% | 44.37M | |
| 2.84 | +0.36 +14.52% | 300.00 | |
| 12.27 | +1.27 +11.55% | 15,700.00 |